107: Eye of the Beholder (7.18)

Synopsis:  Where Troi tries to make us care about suicides and murders of crew members we never met, or her own suicide, which we don’t care about either.

Memory Alpha Summary:  Spoiler Alert–Troi lives

Review:  The suicide discussion at the beginning is pretty shallow.  It’s a very worthwhile subject to discuss for 24th century humans, but they didn’t dig deep enough.  Then we get “It’s not like Don to take his own life.”  Right, because he’d never done it before.  What an awful line.

At least once that part is out of the picture, the episode is fun.  Watching Troi slowly become more paranoid is entertaining, and it was a better vehicle for her than Man of the People.  It’s kind of annoying, however, that we later find out most of the episode was Troi’s hallucination (not that it should be a surprise in season seven), yet in this hallucination we see some scenes from other characters’ points of view.  That’s a little dishonest to me.

3 thoughts on “107: Eye of the Beholder (7.18)”

  1. I remember being really bothered by the hallucinations from other people’s point of view. If I remember correctly, the first time I saw this one, I had eliminated Troi hallucination from the realm of possible explanations, for exactly that reason. And then it turned out I’d been lied to. The jerks.

    1. Yeah, I’m also annoyed when differing camera angles are passed off as someone’s perspective or as a historical recording. The only time I remember it being called out (and actually being explainable) is in “The Cage”

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